Top bearing for vertical shafts.



' No. 839,004. PATENTED DEC.18,'1906.

I F. KLINGNER.'.

I TOP BEARING FORYVBRTIOAL SHAPTS.

APPLICATION FILED IA}. 30, 1904.

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city of ,Frankfort -on-the-Oder, Empire of useful Improvements in I [Vertical Shafts-,- and I do hereby declare that I -.the followingis a-full, clear, and exact, de- IO tains to make and use the same.

i To all wihorir it may concern:

I director of the :F r-ED IoH-KLINGNER, OF FR NKFo T-oN-THE-oDER, GERMANY.

KLINGNER, Maschinenbauanf H., reslding 1n the Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH Markische certain new and Top Bearings for Germany,;. have invented scription ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the-art to which it apper- My invention relates to bearings for verti cal shafts. 1

- Theobjectof my invention is to provide a bearing which; will permit the lateral and vertical v A further object of my invention is to promovement ofa shaft.

1 vide a bearing which will take up the vertical and lateral movement of a shaft; and my invention consists of-the construction,v combi- I view showing the shaft f Referring to the drawings, the shaft a is encircled by a bushing 72, formed from any 4 .extendinglugs c.

nation, andarrangement of parts, as hereinafterv illustrated, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis application, I have illustrated one formof embodiment of "my invention, in wh1ch drawin gs simllar reference characters designate correspo'ndlng parts, and in wh1ch Flgure lis a side elevation showing a bushing having thereon vertical section showing inelevation showing, the application of a shaft to my invention; and Figq fis a plan in section,

suitable metal and provided with laterally- Disposed around the bushing]; is a box d, ofsuitable material, provided 45 upper part of the bushing 12 is a sleeve f pref:-

1 erably integral, inwhich is formed slits f,

sleeve on its upper edge'with vertical slots ed to receive the said lugs 0 when the bushing is inserted in the box. Disposed around the leaving the lower portion of the the parts are in either movement a resilient sleeve herein "described. FigL Z'is a central'vertical section illustrating a box hereinafter described. .Fig; 3 is acentral the box, the bushing, the resilient sleeve, and

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e, adapt- 'my name, this 14th day of TOPBEARING FoR VERTICAL SIIHAFTS.

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formed with fingers f ward centrally of their length and the lower portion of each of which is'turned outward,

as at f, to permit the ready sliding of the sleeveon the bushing when'assembling the parts and when the device is in use.

The inner face of the wall of the box (1 is provided with a recessed portion g, approximately centrally of its length, so that when position, as shown in Fig. 3, the bowed portion of the fingers f 2 set in the recess; It should be evident from this construction that the sleeve f will be held in operative position by said bowed fingers engaging with the recess. From the foregoing description and an inspection of the drawings it should be a parent. that the construction described wil ermit the lateral movement of theshaft and also allow a movement of the shaft from a vertical position. Lateral movement is allowed by the bushing moving from side to side, the lugsc working throughthe slots 0. When the shaft is displaced from a vertical position, the lugs c serve as pivots, and in the resilient fingers of the sleeve working against the inner face 'ofthe wall of the box tend to draw the shaft back into proper position.-

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by i Letters Patent, is-

Atop bearing, comprising the combination of a box provided with slots in the upper porbushing disposed in the box with laterally-extending lugs and provided disposed in said slots, and a sleeve disposed on said bushing and provided with a pluralwhich are bowed outity of slits therein leaving a plurality of fingers adapted box.

In witnesswhereof I have to. bear against the side of the hereunto signed the presence of two subscribing witnesses. FRIEDRICH KLIN GN ER.

Witnesses: i p v .WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY HASPER.

March, 1904, in 

